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Publication Date: August 7, 2018
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This is a somewhat disorganized ramble through Elaine Mokhtefi's life that began with a dirt poor upbringing in New York through the fascinating few years in she spent in Algeria after the revolution where she worked as a translator and journalist. During that time, she engaged with a number of the Black Panthers and other miscreants who were passing through Algeria and has some entertaining tales to tell. The book really could have benefited from a competent editor as Ms. Mokhtefi has led a fascinating, unusual, and varied life.There are a few nasty notes, however. How can you live in a North African country for 12 years and not speak Arabic? Despite her louanges to the sensibilities of the Algerian people, she never bothered to learn their language which makes one wonder how much she missed during those years that we would have loved to hear about. This shortcoming is typically colonialist and shared by many French people who never made the effort. (In contrast, her Algerian husband signed up for ESL courses soon after the couple arrived in New York.)She has some appallingly racist words for the pied noirs. On page 56, she writes of them: "They were functionaries, low-level employees, small-business people, soldiers, policemen, professionals, and technicians. Some did "settle" on land stolen or seized from the native population over the course of history. What I know is that they were callous, racist, cruel, and ignominious. They held power in their greedy hands and lived the "good" life. They represented the white world. They were few exceptions."Well, that is quite a generalization for a million people. I presume that Camus might be one of those exceptions. Maybe also Yves San Laurent, Patrick Bruel, Enrico Macias, Jacques Attali, and Paul Belmondo to name just a few. Ms. Mokhtefi doesn't seem to know much about the pieds noirs having arrived in Algeria after they had all left but she could have taken some time in France to become a little more informed. Most of these people were victimized by history as much as the Algerians were victimized by the French. They were hardly responsible for Algeria tortured history (which got even worse after the French left) and were very much just struggling to get through life, much like the author's parents were as they went from one business failure to another in depression-era New York, Texas, and Connecticut. If fact, holding the average petit bourgeois pied noir responsible for Algerian suffering makes about as much sense as holding the Ms. Mokhtefi (nee Klein) responsible for the miseries of the Palestinians whose rightful cause she has supported her entire life. And unlike Ms. Mokhtefi, many of those pieds noirs did speak Arabic!The author also completely glosses over the many thousands of Algerians slaughtered by a bloodthirsty FLN on its way to power, focusing entirely on the atrocities from the French side.With those exceptions, I do congratulate the author on a life well lived and her exceptional courage in melding a life that made the unusual span from Ridgefield to Algiers and back to the Upper West Side.As to fate of Algeria, it is a depressing fact that its history since independence has been so horrific that Algerians would probably have been better off sticking with the French. Many of the pieds noirs that Mokhtefi so despises were anxious in the 1950s to change the society to one that was integrated and respected the rights of all, both as a matter of principle and as the only possibility of avoiding a bloody civil war. There were many French politicians who believed the same. These people were swept away by the course of history. Fortunately (or maybe not) for Algeria, oil and gas was discovered. Had it not been, the country would have had nothing to export to the rest of the world and Algerians would now be living in abject poverty. Or maybe the absence of fossil fuels might have forced them to make something of themselves and their luminous and so magnificent country.
I was born in 1957 in Algeria, and I am so in debt for Elaine for writing her account. This book is both an educative and informative account on both world politics and personal development. I had to stop reading to search for the people Elaine refers to, and let me tell you that her book includes information that cannot be found in any other book.She does not stop as telling a single detail but offers additional and pertinent information that is definitely necessary to understand the politics at that time. In many books, things are taken out of context to frame an idea. Elaine does not do that. She shares a certain fact from which you might infer an opinion only to surprise that contradicts the same opinion.I do not know Elaine and have not met her. But I have recently heard about her through someone who knew her.A must read from those want to know about the Algerian revolution and World politics in the 60s and 70s.
Algiers, Third World Capital by Elaine Mokhtefi is a memoir and history of an American involved in the newly independent Algeria. Mokhtefi was born in New York. After the Second World War, she joined the youth movement for world peace and justice, becoming director of a militant student organization. In 1951 she settled in France as a translator and interpreter for international organizations in the new postwar world. In 1960, she joined a small team in New York as part of the Algerian National Liberation Front, lobbying the United Nations in support of the government in exile and working for Algerian independence. When the struggle was won, she made Algeria her home, working as a journalist and translator. She married the Algerian writer and liberation war veteran Mokhtar Mokhtefi, who died in 2015.Mokhtefi's short biography above speaks a great deal about the book. Her relationship with Algeria is somewhat unique. She was, after all, an American (Imperialist), non-Arab Speaking woman of Jewish descent. She was, however, at the right place at the right time and with the right attitude. Algeria's quest for independence was long, bloody, and vicious. Mokhtefi had the sympathy for the Algerians living in France and witnessed the violence against them. Algeria became her cause as she worked in the D.C. office of the Algerian National Liberation Front. The New York Office took responsibility for revolutionary Franz Fanon visit to the US although he never made it to New York. He died at Bethesda during his visit, and before his, The Wretched of the Earth was published.She moved to Algeria after its independence and worked through some unusual times. Algeria became a popular destination for those fleeing US law enforcement. Mokhtefi met airline hijackers who made Algeria their goal, Black Panthers, and Timothy Leary. The hijacking was quite famous. William Holder and his female accomplice hijacked the plane with a fake briefcase bomb in Seattle. He successfully collected $500,000 and landed in Algiers although they did not secure the release of Angela Davis. The plane and most of the money was returned to the United States through diplomatic channels. Although Algeria wanted to free the oppressed and help other nations gain their independence, making an enemy of the US was not seen as a smart position. Algeria would need the US to buy its oil. Algeria was in a tight spot between the ideological and the practical.Mokhtefi gives the reader a first-hand account of the early and turbulent history of Algeria. Time has done much to curb her revolutionary vigor, and she presents a reasonably balanced view of her experiences. I still imagine it is difficult to separate oneself from history and offer a completely unbiased account. She does give the reader the inside view of a new government and a turbulent time.
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